If someone shows consummate skill at doing something that person’s skill is very great or almost perfect in every way.

A man who is debonair wears fashionable clothes and is sophisticated, charming, friendly, and confident.

If you describe someone as demure, usually a young woman, you mean that she is quiet and shy and always behaves modestly.

A despot is a leader who has a lot of power and uses it in a cruel and unreasonable way.

Someone who is diffident is shy, does not want to draw notice to herself, and is lacking in self-confidence.

Effrontery is behavior that is very rude, shows a great lack of respect, and is often insulting.

An egregious mistake, failure, or problem is an extremely bad and very noticeable one.

An exorbitant price or fee is much higher than what it should be or what is considered to be reasonable.

Fanaticism is the condition of being overly enthusiastic about a cause to the point of being extreme and unreasonable about it.

An action that is flagrant shows that someone does not care if he or she obviously breaks the rules or highly offends people.

If you think someone is showing hubris you think that he is demonstrating excessive pride and vanity.

Something that is inconspicuous does not attract attention and is not easily seen or noticed because it is small or ordinary.

If you describe someone as indiscreet you mean that she shows lack of judgment, especially because she says or does things in public that should only be done privately.

If something is described as inordinate it means that it is much larger in amount or degree than what you would usually expect.

Something or someone that is maleficent deliberately tries to cause harm or evil.

Someone who is meritorious is worthy of receiving recognition or is praiseworthy because of what she has accomplished.

Someone is considered meticulous when he or she acts with careful attention to detail.

One is overweening when he is not modest, but rather thinks way too much of himself and lets everyone know about it.

To be politic in a decision is to be socially wise and diplomatic.

When you are presumptuous you act improperly, rudely, or without respect, especially while attempting to do something that is not socially acceptable or that you are not qualified to do.

To be punctilious is to pay precise attention to detail.

A scrupulous person takes great care to do everything in an extremely honest and fair manner.

Someone who is unassuming is not boastful or arrogant, but modest.

A feeling that is unbridled is enthusiastic and uncontrolled.

If someone or something is unobtrusive it means that it is not easily noticed and does not stand out in any way.

If you describe something as unsavory, you mean that it is unpleasant or morally unacceptable.

Usurious loans are made with a high interest rate.

A wanton action deliberately harms someone or damages something for no apparent or good reason.

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Adj.

unconscionable

uhn-KON-shuh-nuh-buhl

Context

To spit intentionally in someone’s face is unconscionable. This sort of unconscionable and unacceptable behavior shows no restraint and is both extremely rude and positively indecent. For a parent to teach a child that anger can be acceptably shown in this way is unconscionable and entirely unreasonable. Learning socially acceptable behavior is important, and to think that aggressive actions are a better way to communicate than with words is outrageously wrong and unconscionable.

Memory Hook

UnconscionableOnly if Unconscious The only way that Frida the good nun would be able to commit an unconscionable crime would be if she were unconscious at the time of doing it.

Examples

Russian Olga Yegorova, 29, was cleared Saturday by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the result of an unconscionable oversight that leaves the championships — and the sport — open to a sweeping embarrassment.
—Sports Illustrated

The American experience clearly shows the huge cost that excessive and arbitrary litigation can bring for prices, jobs and innovation through damages, punitive damages, unconscionable lawyers' fees and jury decisions.
—The Economist

Public school choice avoids the politically unacceptable option of compulsory busing on the one hand and the socially unconscionable alternative of school segregation on the other.
—The Christian Science Monitor

Debtors pray that this Court will find the relationship between Creditor and Debtor in this case to be unconscionable with clear elements of duress.
—The Washington Post

Word Ingredients

If one commits unconscionable acts, one is “capable of” of doing the “opposite of” what one “thoroughly knows” to be the right thing.

Word Constellation

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Related Words

abandon ·

brazen ·

cavalier ·

despot ·

effrontery ·

egregious ·

exorbitant ·

fanaticism+ ·

flagrant ·

hubris ·

indiscreet ·

inordinate ·

maleficent ·

overweening ·

presumptuous ·

unbridled ·

unsavory ·

usurious ·

wanton ·

abstemious ·

astute ·

chary ·

chivalrous ·

consummate ·

debonair ·

demure ·

diffident ·

inconspicuous ·

meritorious+ ·

meticulous ·

politic ·

punctilious ·

scrupulous ·

unassuming ·

unobtrusive ·

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Word Variants

conscionable
adj

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principled; acceptable to one's conscience or moral standards

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